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Sordid Lessons from Uvalde School Shooting; Justice Department Cites \u201cCascading Failures.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n WHEN SECONDS COUNT, THE POLICE ARE\u00a0MINUTES AWAY<\/span>\u00a0JUST NOT COMING<\/em><\/p>\n The U.S. Department of Justice released its findings yesterday on the May 2022 school shooting at\u00a0Robb Elementary School\u00a0in Uvalde, Texas, which left nineteen children and two teachers dead and another 17 wounded. The report, \u201cCritical Incident Review Active Shooter at Robb Elementary School,\u201d found what it called \u201ccascading failures of leadership, decision-making, tactics, policy and training\u201d also using terms such as \u201ccritical failure,\u201d \u201cbreakdown,\u201d demonstrations upon leadership \u201cof no urgency,\u201d policy \u201ctraining deficiencies\u201d and more on the part of mostly local law enforcement officials. The word \u201cfailure\u201d appeared dozens of times throughout the report.<\/p>\n The report noted that law enforcement officers were on the scene within 3 minutes of the first 911 call, yet the threat was not eliminated until more than an hour later.<\/p>\n Officials received intense criticism in the aftermath of the attack, with more than 75 minutes passing after the initial police response and before action was taken against the shooter, during which multiple calls by students were made to 911.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Former Uvalde Acting Police Chief Mariano Pargas and Uvalde school district Police Chief Pete Arredondo, neither who are still on their jobs, is where much of the initial blame has been placed as they were both ultimately in charge. Indeed, many families of the victims and within the community of Uvalde want officials who were responsible for the botched response to face criminal charges, according to the\u00a0Texas Tribune<\/a>. According to the\u00a0Associated Press<\/a>, local officials are still \u201cweighing whether to bring charges.\u201d<\/p>\n What added more pain and disgust to the situation for many Americans at the time of the massacre was the scene of police officers, who we now know went from \u201cactive shooter\u201d mode to dealing with what they simply were communicating as a \u201cbarricade situation,\u201d keeping understandably panicked parents\u2014some getting text messages and calls from their children inside the school\u2014from entering to save their children.<\/p>\n To review the complete 610-page Justice Dept. report,\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sordid Lessons from Uvalde School Shooting; Justice Department Cites \u201cCascading Failures.\u201d WHEN SECONDS COUNT, THE POLICE ARE\u00a0MINUTES AWAY\u00a0JUST NOT COMING The U.S. Department of Justice released its findings yesterday on the May 2022 school shooting at\u00a0Robb Elementary School\u00a0in Uvalde, Texas, which left nineteen children and two teachers dead and another 17 wounded. The report, \u201cCritical … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99485,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99484\/revisions\/99485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe central issue was found to be a failure by law enforcement to treat the scene as an active shooter situation upon arrival. Specifically, first-on-the-scene responders, including the commanding officer reportedly shifted the response to that of a barricaded shooter\u2026despite 911 dispatchers relaying they had received calls from children inside the classroom four minutes after officers arrived. Leadership also failed to establish a clear command structure, leaving many arriving support officers confused and without clear orders.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n